Jefferson, Thomas; Washington, H.A.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private. Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State. With Explanatory Notes, Tables of Contents, and a Copious Index to Each Volume, as Well as a General Index to the Whole, in Nine Volumes New York: John C. Riker 1853 - First edition. Boards a bit rubbed with loss from spine heads of a few volumes, frontispiece of first volume loose, moderately foxed. Price includes cost to have spines professionally restored with new cloth, and frontispiece reattached. 1853 Hard Cover. Complete in nine volumes. viii, (2), 615; vi, (2), 598; vi, 599; vii, 597; ix, 612; vi, 611; viii, 658; vii, 607; vii, 589 pp. 8vo. Blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. Fold-out facsimile of Declaration of Independence precedes text of first volume. Sabin 35919. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

POWER, W. Tyrone.RECOLLECTIONS OF A THREE YEARS' RESIDENCE IN CHINA:IncludingPeregrinations in Sp London 1853, Bentley. Red blind stamped cloth, 380p., with a. colored lithographic frontis, very good. S C A R C E. The author was an Agent General in New Zealand and also wro- te the 1849 book "Sketches in New Zealand." Covering his ex- periences in Hong Kong, pirates, opium trade, war junks, the fishing populations, Amoy, tea trade. Habits and appearance of the people of Fokien. Scenery in Amoy, Buddhist shrines the secret Triad Society and Ningpo. Formosa: wild natives, cannibalism, Quilon & Chusan, Koo Lung Soo, and the new con- sulate. Chinese seamanship, opium clippers, opium use, beau- ty of the scenery. The marvelous soya bean: and its uses, missionary work and activities of Protestants. Chinese supe- rstition, Buddhism, Chinese theatricals, New Year festivals, gamgbling, customs and so much more ! An excellent primary source, well written. Scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * * BUY WITH .

FAIRHOLME, George Knight ErskineTen lithographs views from the series "Fifteen Views of Australia in 1845 by G.K.E.F" together with a lithograph of King George's Sound Western Australia London: circa, 1853. very good. Eleven lithographs, varying sizes but approx. each 250 x 350 mm. England(?), "Printed by R. Appel's Anastatic Press", n.d. but c.1853, unbound, housed in a blue cloth folding solander case with the bookplate of Rodney Davidson. This choice collection of lithographs is by George Fairholme (1822-1889), artist, explorer and squatter. Fairholme arrived in Sydney from Scotland in 1839 and with young Scottish friends began the long and pioneering trek into Queensland. He settled at South Toolburra on the Darling Downs staying until 1852. This was the very beginning of white settlement at Brisbane and the Darling Downs and this young squatter is remembered as "a very intelligent gentlemanly man, the most intelligent of any of the squatters" (Henry Stoubart). Fairholme in Australia sketched daily life. He had been well educated before arriving to start life on the land and whilst attending Rugby School had learnt to draw under the English artist Edward Pretty. The period of the 1840's and 50's "were the golden age of horsemanship in Brisbane... and these drawings show the Leslies and the Leith-Hays at Canning Downs and South Toolburra as they brand their calves in the stockade and load the wool-packs onto drays to bring the wool clip down to Brisbane Town" (Susanna Evans "Historic Brisbane..." page 26).In1852, Fairholme with Arthur Hodgson as leaders of the Committee of the Moreton Bay and Northern Districts Separation Association organised an historic meeting in Brisbane to confirm that all the leading squatters of the Darling Downs district supported "the ultimate separation of the Northern districts of New South Wales". It took a further seven years for separation from New South Wales to be achieved and by this time Fairholme had returned to Scotland so did not witness the beginning of Queensland's independence in which he had played an embryonic role.The explorer Ludwig Leichardt records that in 1844 he accompanied Fairholme on an expedition is search of fossil bones and to collect botanical specimens and the two men became friends. This friendship influenced Fairholme who went on to travel to the German cities described to him by Leichhardt. It was on this European expedition, a far cry from the Australian outback, that he met and married Baroness Pauline Poellnitz-Frankenberg in 1857 living for the rest of his life at the Castle of Wellenau in Austria, never to return to Australia.The eleven lithographs offered include a view of Brisbane showing the first houses to be built. Privately printed by the artist on his return to Europe, these views were intended for family and friends and they are exceptionally rare with no complete set recorded. The set offered corresponds to the holdings in the National Library of Australia for ten but also includes "King Georges Sound W. Australia"; this lithograph is from a separate work by Fairholme.

COLTON, J.H. (publisher)The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minesota [sic.], Missouri, and Nebraska ... Accompanied with a large and minute Map New York: published by J.H. Colton, 1853. 89pp. plus 24pp. catalogue of maps, etc., published by Colton. Large folding map: Smith, J. Calvin: "Guide Through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa, Showing the Township lines of the United States Surveys, Location of Cities, Towns, Villages, Post Hamlets, Canals, Rail and Stage Roads." New York: J.H. Colton, 1853. Full period colour, 21 7/8 x 26 3/8 inches. Gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth covers. Colton's Western Tourist, complete with the folding map. This is Howes third edition, third printing. The title page for this printing has been revised to account for the newly established Territory of Nebraska, which is still absent from the map. Nevertheless, the map has been updated throughout to account for the rapid development along the Midwestern frontier. The 1853 printing has a larger floral border than the 1844 printing, which was probably added in 1850. Howes S615; Ristow, p.316; Rumsey 2962.

[PERRY, Matthew C.]A SUPERB VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES SQUADRON, UNDER COMMAND OF COMMODORE PERRY, B [New York [1853], Gleason]. Large broadside, 38.5 x 60.5 cm.. or ca. 15.5 x 23.75 inches, inches. Engraved by J.W. Orr and. drawn by Wade Del, both of New York. Double Gleason's sheet.. A BROADSIDE OF THE FULL SQUADRON AS THEY DEPART FOR JAPAN Listing & illustrating the eleven ships under his command: Mississippi [Perry's Flag Ship], Princeton, Alleghany, the Vermont, St. Mary's, Macedonian, Vandalia, Susquehanna, the Saratoga, Plymouth & Powhatan. Perry is seen standing in a long boat in the center foreground with all of the entire fleet, their cannons exposed & Perry's grand paddle wheeler in the foreground. A very historic view of the whole of the U.S.-Japanese Squadron the day of their departure for Japan. This is the only illustration of the whole fleet, flags fly- ing, under full sail. Highly dramatic and sensational work! Nicely matted, suitable for framing & display, all original. This has always been a very RARE item, and is seldom found. Illustrated in Blumberg: COMMODORE PERRY IN THE LAND OF THE SHOGUN, N.Y. 1985, p.60. Cited and illustrated in George A. Zabriskie: PERRY'S EXPEDITION TO JAPAN 1953-1854, page 9, a full page reproduction of this large sheet work. R A R E Perry [1794-1858] was an American naval office, who command- ed the expedition that established United States relations with Japan. Born April 10, 1794, in South Kingston, Rhode Island, the brother of Oliver Hazard Perry, he began his naval career as midshipman at the age of 15. He advanced to lieutenant in 1813 and to commander in 1826. He supervised the construction of the first naval steamship, the Fulton, and upon its completion in 1837,he took command with the rank of captain. He was promoted to commodore in 1842. In 1846-47 he commanded the Gulf squadron during the Mexican War. In 1853, Perry was sent to Japan, a country that had been closed to outsiders since the 17th century. On July 8, he led a squadron of four ships into Tokyo Bay & present- ed representatives of the Emperor with the text of a propos- ed commercial and friendship treaty. To give the relulctant Japanese court time to consider the offer, he then sailed for China. With an even more powerful fleet, he returned to Japan in February 1854. The treaty, signed on March 31, 1854 provided that humane treatment be extended to sailors ship- wrecked in Japanese territory, that U.S. ships be permitted to buy coal in Japan, and that the ports of Shimoda & Hako- date be opened to U. S. commerce. Perry's mission ended Japan's 400 years of self-imposed isolation, a prerequisite for its subsequent development into a modern nation. Perry died in New York City on March 4, 1858. A scan can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * * BUY WITH .

Bible. O.T. Exodus. Cherokee. 1853. Worcester & Foreman.Exodus: or the second book of Moses. Translated into the Cherokee language. Park Hill [OK]: Mission Press: Edwin Archer, Pr. Tall, narrow 12mo (17 cm; 6.75"). 152 pp.. 1853?-[55] A scarce Park Hill imprint, entirely in the Cherokee language and using Sequoyah's syllabary (generally called the "Cherokee alphabet"). Hargrett states that "printing of the volume [of Exodus] was not completed until some time in 1855." The translators were Samuel Austin Worcester (1798?-1859) and Stephen Foreman (1807?-81). As a young man living with his parents in New England, Worcester had met and become friends with Buck Oowatie, a Cherokee whose name among Anglos was Elias Boudinot. Worcester studied for the ministry and after he had been ordained, he requested a post among the Cherokee. Once there he set to introducing printing, newspapers, and expanded literacy using Sequoyah's syllabary. Foreman was born in Georgia of a Cherokee mother and a white father. He was educated at Union Seminary, Princeton Seminary, and Marysville College (Tenn.), and was ordained in 1835. He made the trek from his homeland to the West with the Cherokee, and spent his life at and near the Park Hill mission. Removed from a bound volume, last two pages supplied (along with duplicates of integral pp. 145?-50) from a taller, never bound copy. Supplied leaves with light waterstaining and loose and pp. 146?-50 of main textblock also loose; early and late leaves of textblock stained, browned, soiled. Far from a perfect example but complete, useful, and, made up as it is, additionally illustrative of some aspects of handpress printing.

PYNE, James Baker (1800-1870) lithographed by W. GAUCIGrassmere from Loughrigg Fell London: Published by Thos. Agnew & Son, 1853. Tinted lithograph with rich publisher's colour. Printed on wove paper. Trimmed to image as issued. In excellent condition. A stunning view of Grassmere, from the deluxe portfolio edition of John Baker Pyne's magnificent work "The English Lake District." The Lake District first came to the fore with the rise of the Romantic Movement during the second half of the eighteenth century. The poet William Wordsworth, a native of the district, established the area as the epitome of the ideal landscape, and artists and tourists alike visited the regions natural beauties in search of the Romantic ideal. Poets such as Byron, Shelley, and Keats proclaimed the Lakes as the manifestation of the "Picturesque." By the middle of the nineteenth century, when Pyne visited the area, the Lakes were well established in the national consciousness as the most beautiful natural reserve in England. Bristol-born James Baker Pyne is now considered by many to have been second only to Turner in his ability to capture the essence of the English landscape. After training initially for the Law, he turned to painting in his twenties. He moved to London in 1835, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists (where he later became Vice President). He traveled widely throughout Britain and Europe, but he is best known for his series of views of the Lakes, painted between 1848 and 1851. This exquisite view comes from the deluxe portfolio edition of Pyne's celebrated text "The English Lake District." First published in 1853, the deluxe edition was issued in custom-made portfolios with the images superbly coloured and tipped onto thick wove cards. Examples of these images are difficult to find, making this striking print a true rarity. Pyne's seminal work was later reissued by Day & Son in 1859 with the title "Lake Scenery of England." Abbey, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 , p. 123, no. 196, plate 7; Tooley, English Plate Books with Coloured Plates 1790-1860 , no. 387, plate 14.

KAIRIKU OKATAME ONBASHO ZU KEKAIRIKU OKATAME ONBASHO ZU KE: MAP OF PLACES UNDER GUARD ON ON LAND & SEA IN THE Japan March 1853. A single large sheet broad side, woodblock. printed by hand on hand-made laid paper, 60.2 x 40.5 cm,. black key block outline, slight marginal stain, print size. 55 x 36.5 cm., folded 4 times, two sheets center joined.. A BROADSIDE SHOWING COMMODORE PERRY'S ARRIVAL TO JAPAN A very important and early bird's eye view map of Uraga Bay, or "Mississippi Bay" as Perry renamed in for America. This work graphically documents the historic and first arrival of America's official representative. * In 1853, Perry & his squadron of four warships with some 560 men appeared in Uraga Bay, and created a great disturbance to the Bakufu. The protection of Uraga Bay was assigned to various Daimyo. Each of the Daimyo assigned a large number of soldiers to protect their space along the Bay shore, including the three small islands at the Northwestern end of the Bay. * Each of these Daimyo are represented on the map by their Mon or family crests, with a small note of the Daimyo's name, and number of soldiers available. A very large number of Matsudaira Daimyo were located closest to the area just Northwest of old Edo. * At the bottom of the map Honmoku, a small hamlet, juts out a small area which later became Yokohama. This was also under Matsudaira control. Ahead of the title cartouche is a list of the six provinces touching the bay: Bushu, Boushu, Zushu, Soushu, Kasusa & Shimousa. The map was not likely drawn by a person who actually viewed the historic arrival of Perry in his flag ship, but rather by a third party who either heard or read about the story, or copied other broadsides or Kawara-ban [posters] which were commonly displayed throughout the area during this time. The reason for this deduction is that this print shows some inconsistencies. Namely, the largest of eight "Black Ships" in the fleet flies an American flag flying at its stern and is under steam at the entrance of the bay, while the balance of the fleet is already just past Honmoku. * Per Commodore Perry's own narrative, he lead the force. His was the largest paddle wheeler and is shown under full steam with its gang-plank down and lowered into the sea ! This was never done while under, and the smoke stack is shown belching steam & smoke! It was common in those heady days for Japanese artists to misinterpret and make such errors. Even the count of the ships does not jive. The print shows a total of eight "Black ships" but again, the historic total of the first visiting fleet was four. * The balance of the fleet, are already about two-thirds of into the Bay. Three paddle wheelers are illustrated, with four other smaller vessels, none sport the U.S. flag except the largest. The arrival of the Americans clearly threw the Shogunate into chaos. The Shogun died during this time which made the situation even untenable situation. Perry actually left Japan on July 17th declaring that he would return in the following year for an answer to his demand that Japan open Japan to foreign intercourse and allow American ships to refuel and take on rations when needed, this caused general panic in the public & official sectors, and suspicion that the West would try to d to Japan what they did in other Asian countries, that is reduce them to a colony status. * No Japanese defenders even fired their coastal batteries at the Americans ! While this print and others similar to it show the Japanese coastal fortified positions as well as the arrival of the American "Black Ship" fleet, this one is quite unique in the way it graphically illustrates Perry's Flag Ship. * Japan was immediately divided into two factions upon his unexpected arrival. One supported the opening of the country. The second refused to agree to such imposed foreign intervention stating this was contrary to Japan's 400 year old policy of "Sakoku" or "Closed Country" [aka exclusion] policy. * During that 400 year period, any Japanese who left the country and returned were subjected to immediate death. Thus, even poor fisherman lost at sea [castaways] were often put to death by the Shogun if they successfully returned to Japan. To revoke the law of exclusion the Shogun would loose face with their own people. Japan knew that it could not fight a war with foreign power at that time and thus knew it would have to submit, with the hopes to forcing out the foreigners at a future time. * USEFUL REFERENCES: For a more comprehensive outline of this historic period and event, see F. Brinkley: A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE MEIJI ERA, pp. 664-667. * For very similar and related maps & Kawara-ban broadsides, see also T. Tamba: YOKOHAMA UKIYO-E, illustration numbers 27, 31-33, 35, 37, 42, 44, 46. Again, these maps also, like ours, show the place names with the officer assignments under new guard regulations. * K. Nonogami: BUNMEI KAI KA NISHIKI E SHU: COLOR PRINTS OF THE LATE TOKUGAWA & EARLY MEIJI PERIODS IN THE NONOGAMI COLLECTION, p.10, plate # 2 for a similar title. * Higuchi: BAKUMATSU MEIJI KAIKO NO NISHIKI E HAN SHU, plates 13, 16 for similar and related items. *** Color scan can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * * BUY WITH .

[BLACK SHIPS KAWARABAN].?????. [Kairiku okatame tsuke]. [Concerning the Defence in Land and Sea]. Edo.. (circa1854).. Black and white kawaraban (commercial news-sheet of the Edo period) on washi, approximately 40 x 60cm. Little light browning along folds and in lower central section but generally a very good copy. This karawaban shows a map of the coast near Edo with the positions of the coastal guard posts indicated. Each guard post is indicated with the name of the warlord assigned for the duty and his family crest and insignias. The upper section of the sheet shows a list of the warlords with the names of their posts and family crests. The upper band shows a list of the warlords with names of their posts and family crests. Under the title at the upper right corner, a figure of an American (sailor?) is depicted and the six American warships are shown in the middle of the map. In this map north is toward lower left corner. On 8th July 1853 a fleet of four American warships (in Japanese they were called "Kurofune", meaning "black ships"), including two steam-powered ships, led by Commodore Mathew Perry appeared in Edo [Tokyo] Bay, which astonished the people in Edo and eventually led to the opening of Japan to the West. This map shows the coastal defence situation at the time when Perry visited Japan again in February the following year. Although undated it was probably was published in 1854. .

Parsons, Ch.BIRD&#146;S-EYE VIEW OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. PRESENTED TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE ILLUSTRATED NEWS&#146;. Large birds-eye view of the Manhattan from the South with elaborate borders and two further panoramas above and below. Designed by Charles Parsons, engraved by Frank Leslie and printed from several woodblocks for the subscribers of the New York Illustrated News November 26, 1853 - 60x89cm. Later hand colour. Excellent condition. Rare. Charles Parsons (1821-1910), British painter, worked for a considerable time in New York, where he was a member of the National Academy of Design. - Frank Leslie (1821-1880), wood ngraver, was known in America under this name, but was actually born Henry Carter in Ipswich/England.

[St. Helena]ISLAND ST HELENA, PORT REGULATIONS [caption title] [Jamestown, St. Helena], 1853. Old fold lines. Minor soiling and wear. Very good. A rare South Atlantic broadside issued by order of the governor and signed in print by the colonial secretary and collector of customs. The broadside lists fifteen regulations, covering a variety of topics pertinent to the port. It also gives fees and charges, scheduling information about the "Time Ball" (apparently a time- telling device) and the island's time zone, the times draw bridges are raised and the town gates closed, as well as the latitude and longitude of the island. The royal arms are printed at the top of the sheet. No copies located in OCLC. There are not a lot of St. Helena imprints.

FIELDS, JAMES THOMASAutograph letter signed, dated 72 Regent Street, London, July 14, 1853 - Single sheet folded to make four pages, approximately 750 words. To the critic and important figure in American literature, Edwin Percy Whipple. ? "My Dear Percy / I cannot thank you enough for yr. letters. They are filled with good things and I only wish I had / the writer here to pay him with a hug. Lord, Lord, Lord, what a time I am having and how I wish you were here. / Day unto Day uttereth invitations and Night unto Night sheweth forth Dinners! / . . . How much you would have / enjoyed dear old Savage Landor's chat over a breakfast at John Kenyons last week when I sat between both / these writers and listened like a three year old child. Landor's remarks are as startling as the first clap of thunder in / a fresh summer and his criticisms wd convulse you. Let me try and remember some of them / We were talking of style. 'God d-n it,' said he 'the man who wrote English was Ben Franklin! Doctor Johnson was nobody beside him!" ? Fields also writes about meeting Alexander Dyce, Lord Russell, and sends gossip about John Wilson (Christopher North) of Edinburgh ("Professor Wilson is in a mad house!"). Fields and Whipple were close friends from the beginnings of their literary careers. This is an early example of Fields' correspondence. The majority of letters cited in James Austin's Fields of the Atlantic Monthly (Huntington Library, 1953) are after 1860.

Smith, Lucy MackBiographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations Liverpool: Published for Orson Pratt by S.W. Richards, 1853. First edition. 297pp. Duodecimo [15.5 cm] Blue diced leather with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and gilt rules to the boards. This has been rebacked with the majority of the original backstrip laid over. extremities rubbed, more so at corners. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Final leaf has been supplied in facsimile. This diminutive volume and the words contained therein have caused great controversy since it's original publication. Lucy Mack Smith (1776-1856) wrote the memoir based on her family history and the religious revelations of her son Joseph Smith (1805-1844). With Lucy Smith's permission, but without the approval of LDS Church President Brigham Young (1801-1877), Orson Pratt, Sr. (1811-1881) published Biographical Sketches in Liverpool, England in 1853. Initially, the book was praised in a November 1854 Deseret News article which stated that "…many facts which it contains, and never before published, are of great importance to the world, and the work constitutes a valuable acquisition to the libraries of the Saints." Pratt, who was one of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, frequently battled with Brigham Young over their differing religious theories. Young "…was really angry at Pratt over doctrinal matters and, about half the time, while dressing him down in public and in private, simply threw in Biographical Sketches for good measure." (Anderson, Lavina Fielding, ed. Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001; p. 101). Further evidence of this doctrinal feud becoming personal between the two men can be found in the October 21, 1865 edition of the Millennial Star (pp. 657-658). The First Presidency of the LDS Church openly condemns Biographical Sketches and advises: "…it should be gathered up and destroyed…In Great Britain, diligence has been used in collecting and in disposing of this work, and we wish that same diligence continued there and also exercised here, at home, until not a copy is left. The inquiry may arise in the minds of some persons, 'Why do you want to destroy this book?' Because, we are acquainted with individual circumstances alluded to in it, and know many of the statements to be false…" The lengthy admonishment went on to state that, if any church members owned a copy: "…to dispose of it so it will never be read by any person again. If they do not, the responsibility of the evil results that may accrue from keeping it will rest upon them and not upon us…those who have been instructed respecting its character, and will still keep it on their tables, and have it in their houses… need rebuke, it is transmitting lies to posterity to take such a course, and we know that the curse of God will rest upon every one, after he comes to the knowledge of what is here said, who keeps these books for his children to learn and believe in lies. (Star pp. 657-658) Orson Pratt also did not escape public chastisement from the First Presidency: …"brother Pratt had it printed, and published it, without saying a word to the First Presidency or the Twelve about what he was doing. This is the way the book came into being. It was smuggled, juggled and foisted into existence as a book…" (Star pp. 657-658) Subsequently, many of the books were destroyed. Individuals still owning copies were instructed to turn them over to their Bishops or to the church offices to be disposed of. People who voluntarily turned in their copies were paid with a credit towards their tithing or in other works of the church. For this reason, the Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and his Progenitors for Many Generations is a rare, controversial and historically important book. Crawley 829. Flake/Draper 8080. Howes S637. Mormon Imprints 47. Mormon Fifty 41. Auerbach 1234. Scallawagiana Hundred 46. Graff 3860.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870).Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853., 1853. First Edition, bound from the original parts; octavo, pp. 624. First issue points as called for. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Elegantly bound in half green calf, gilt spine uniformly sunned, with tan morocco title label, over marbled boards, edges also marbled. Some toning to text block, contents a little thumbed and spotted, plates with some marginal browning. A very good copy in an attractivecontemporary leather binding. Although many of Dickens most famous works are crawling with crime, it is just this title that can be firmly placed in the murder mystery category. 'Bleak House' is essentially a classic whodunnit, professionally solved, which became only the second entry (after Poe's 'Tales') in the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of crime fiction. Dickens returned to crime fiction for his highly-rated final story, the 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' but this was unfinished and the case unsolved.... Within 'Bleak House' the author experiments with dual narrators and the story ranges from the dark and filthy Victorian slums to the landed aristocracy; Inspector Bucket is one of the earliest detectives to appear in fiction and was probably based on C.K. Field of the recently formed Scotland Yard. An essential mystery novel. Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue (1913). Collins; Dickens and Crime (1962).Queen's Quorum. Book Collector No.273, p34. Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966).

[Clay] “Ashland / The Homestead of Henry Clay” [caption title below image] Drawn by James Hamilton after daguerreotypes taken on the spot by J.M. Hewitt. Engraved by J. Sartain Louisville, KY: Published by F. Hegan, 1853. First edition (?; a reworked version was issued in Philadelphia in 1863). Engraved view of Henry Clay's home in Lexington, Kentucky, 20 3/4 x 30 1/2 inches, a richly hand-colored view of the stately southern house in a grove of trees, a dog lounging by an empty chair under one tree, household staff tending to daily business on the front steps and to the side. Henry Clay and his family resided on their plantation in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1806 until his death in 1852, though much time was spent in Washington, D.C.; the main plantation house, as pictured here, was completed about 1815. Copies of this print are held in the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection at the Indiana State Museum and in the Yale University Art Gallery. Not in Deak "Picturing America." Not recorded on OCLC. Margins show a little soiling, lower margin with some chips; still a beautiful colored copy of a rare view of Henry Clay's Lexington, Kentucky, home. Laid down on linen, with some other professional restoration. (#6418)